Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

restez KALLLLM: vlog-on

High Anxiety meme descends by form of free-fall into the physical world. Mental wealth is nothing to joke about it, if you can find it. French version of marketing “maquette” for perhaps a future Vlog. Unlike Marsahll McLuhan and his … Continue reading

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doctor your eyes

Movies are intended to be, and are taken to be, larger than life. One does not imagine that what one is seeing is real, or the opposite, that it is all too real. In both cases, a legitimate and understood … Continue reading

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believing your eyes

Television news happens right in front of us. But is that what really happened? Is it a true picture or only a violent incident? Would it have happened at all if the video cameras had not been there?… …However carefully … Continue reading

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seeing is believing

None of us has ever seen Moses descending from Mount Sinai.If there had been television in his day and we could look at the video, would we know him any better as we think we now know a Barack Obama … Continue reading

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bucky the pop star

by Art Chantry: note to designers: if you ever run across a copy of this paperback book in your goodwill or book exchange center (stuffed in next to romance novels, i’m sure), SNAG IT! it’s a really cool little book. … Continue reading

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bombs away: mullah strangelove

So then, just where are they going to drop this thing? (see link at end)…Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Thursday that Moscow does not believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel. “Thus … Continue reading

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stamping out those millenarians

In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. America may be ready for its own millennial cult… The main American Indian movements, Pontiac, Code of Handsome Lake and the Ghost Dance, and the hundreds of others … Continue reading

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gift box: 3D potluck paradise

the Aspen Magazine. Boxed …….. by Art Chantry ( art@artchntry.com) As promised, this is the Andy Warhol designed issue of ASPEN (the magazine in a box). It’s issue #3/December 1966 ($4). It came out right at the height of the … Continue reading

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aspen: thinking within a box

Aspen magazine. thinking outside the box.as without from within… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is ASPEN Magazine (issue #4, spring 1967) – the magazine IN A BOX!!!! this is the final issue (so far as i know.) each issue was … Continue reading

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distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading

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